The beautiful thing about commercialisation of our local hawker food businesses, is that we appreciate the old school stalls(really authentic kind) even more. Nowadays, we have to travel quite a distance to a particular stall to experience a particular authentic taste. I mean after all the travelling hassle(bitter), the sweetness becomes more sweet and the shiokness becomes more shiok, right? It has a greater perceived value(seen as gold!) due to it's scarcity, otherwise if they are all over the place ...

Back in the old days, most Hainanese would know where is Seah street. It was where most Hainanese would hang out and the very first Hainanese clan association in Singapore, Nam Li was housed there. So not surprisingly, this is also the street where the popularity of Hainanese coffee and Hainanese chicken rice took effect.
My dad used to take us to Sin Swee Kee at Seah street for our chicken rice when I was young. It was a pretty ...

I have so many overseas friends telling me that Singapore is famous for Yuk Kuat Char(Bak Kut Teh). They actually ranked Bak Kut Teh among the same level in terms of popularity as Chicken Rice or Chilli Crab. So it seems to me that to foreigners, Bak Kut Teh is as native to Singapore as Dim Sum is to Hong Kong.
You and I know that not every hawker centres sell Bak Kut Teh. There was even once, I searched the ...